Our mission is to help finance teams become forwarding-looking business partners, who work with operations to manage today’s uncertain world.

In today’s unpredictable world, companies look to their finance organization to help develop action plans to steer themselves to reaching their organizational goals.

This requires the finance team to move beyond the number crunching and compliance roles of the past. Our team is dedicated to helping develop “Future Ready Finance” functions that enable sustained, superior performance.

Whether you have full buy-in to make transformative changes in your finance organization or are just trying to improve productivity at a small scale, setting your organization on a cost-conscious path to continuous improvement can drive unprecedented results. Our work identifies the unproductive and costly tasks you should stop doing to create time for more effective approaches. Recommended actions are focused on customer delight and employee engagement, which will reduce hard and soft costs in your processes and drive desired results.

Survival against global competition requires you to continually respond to your environment. Agility comes from reducing complexity in the management process which is achieved by empowering front-line staff to act thoughtfully and decisively. This type of positive change can happen in small incremental steps, creating an environment that engages your team, chips away at bureaucracy, and reduces waste. Future Ready FinanceTM organizations work to define a management model that fits culturally and allows them to innovate their most critical processes, building trust, transparency, and responsiveness within an open and accountable environment.

 

Contact Us

14681 Midway Road, Suite 200
Addison, Texas 75001

Steve Player
Managing Director
steve@theplayergroup.com

Robin Baumgartner
Operations Director
robin@theplayergroup.com

Office: (214) 239-0155

We work with your team to assess where you are in your Future Ready journey and then tailor a path forward to your needs. We offer consulting, training and speaking on the following Future Ready Finance topics:

 
  • Finance Transformation

  • Strategy & Performance Management

  • Agile Finance

  • Planning and Forecasting

  • Cost and Profitability

  • Lean Finance

  • Reporting and Visualization

Steve Player is the co-author/editor of six books on planning, profitability, and business performance management including Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting.

Steve has authored (monthly), “Finance Transformation” a column for Business Finance Magazine interviewing CFOs from leading organizations on innovative finance and planning processes. Steve currently cohosts the monthly Planning Aces podcast at CFOThoughtLeader.com. Steve has written a monthly cost management column for Controller Magazine, was an editorial board member for the Journal of Cost Management, and has been a resource for various publications including CFO Magazine, Inc., Entrepreneur, Investor’s Business Daily, The Dallas Morning News, and for the APQC.

 
 

You NEED Future Ready Finance to Thrive.

Contact us so that we can help you and your organization become Future Ready.